Talk:Death care industry in the United States

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Death industry?

How is this different from the Death industry? Should it be merged with that article? Boneyard90 (talk) 04:48, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

I agree. Also name change, see below... Jojalozzo 19:17, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:35, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

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Deathcare → Death care — The current title is not good grammar. It could work as a trademark but not a generic topic name. Jojalozzo 19:17, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

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• Support - I found no mention of deathcare or Deathcare in Google n-gram viewer (just searches books) but plenty of Death Care and death care. Even in a search there are few instances of "deathcare". Jojalozzo 19:17, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

• Support. I'm convinced by the ngram evidence. Googlebook searches on "deathcare industry" and "death care industry" pretty well clinch it. Noetica^Tea? 03:01, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
• Support. I agree the ngram evidence is compelling. Jenks24 (talk) 04:02, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
• Close this move and the move requested at Talk:Death industry use the same target (Death care) so interfere with each other. 70.24.251.194 (talk) 08:42, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

I think the merge proposal is: Death industry merge-to Deathcare. This proposal is to then rename Deathcare to Death care (after the merge). Jojalozzo 11:25, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

• comment a merger discussion is open at Talk:Death care. 70.24.251.194 (talk) 08:43, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Discussion

Any additional comments:

death care Death care (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) does not redirect here, it redirects to Death industry (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). 70.24.251.194 (talk) 08:44, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

We can rearrange the redirects as we like. Jojalozzo 11:27, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

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More Information

Hi there, I just read through your article and I think this is an important topic to look into and have information on. I wanted to share some ways the article could possibly be improved to add more information for readers to learn from.

• History Section:

I was thinking that some more information could be added in history in terms of how death care looked prior to embalming as well as a kind of timeline throughout the ever-changing death care industry in terms of viewings versus non-viewings, burial versus cremation, etc. I found an article on a newer form of burials called "green burials" that are more eco-friendly (https://www.everplans.com/articles/important-facts-to-know-about-green-burials) if you would like to check it out. I also found an article that elaborated on the beginnings of embalming and the start of the American funeral (https://theconversation.com/how-lincolns-embrace-of-embalming-birthed-the-american-funeral-industry-86196).

I also thought it might be interesting to have some information on cremation since this form of death care is becoming increasingly popular.

• Consumer Protection Section:

In addition to consumer protection, I found an interesting Forbes article that may lend some help. This article discusses customer service in the death care industry and might add to your discussion of consumers (https://www.forbes.com/sites/micahsolomon/2017/05/26/customer-service-in-deathcare-how-the-funeral-industry-cares-for-the-living/#6e2433b561c3).

• Statistics Section:

In addition to the statistics you have already laid out, I found several articles that provide some more explanatory information to the statistics or provide a contextual background to them. This site provides information on the history as well as cremation services (http://foresthill.williamcronon.net/geography-of-death/an-overview-of-the-death-care-industry/). It gives statistics on expenditures and percentages for the trends of burial versus cremation in the U.S.

Another article is from the U.S. Department of Commerce (https://build.export.gov/build/groups/public/@eg_main/@byind/@healthtech/documents/webcontent/eg_main_113189.pdf). This article is interesting in that it provides statistics and trends, and it may be more up-to-date with the numbers than the ones you currently have in this section. It also discusses, in the opening paragraph, how the death care industry is divided between three sectors: the ceremony (if one wishes to have one), cremation or burial, and different forms of "monuments" to memorialize the deceased (i.e. headstones). This article may also prove helpful in adding new sections to your page. Perhaps you could add a section for each of the three distinct parts of the death care industry.

All the best! Mayhem03 (talk) 02:19, 12 February 2018 (UTC)